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Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Oct 16
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020041'completeopt' "popup" variant that uses a callback after the popup has been
42created, so the contents can be changed. Make it hidden, callback
43or later has to make it visible. #4924 Setting the buffer contents later
44doesn't work well.
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +020045
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020046Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020047- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020048- Implement flip option
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020049- Why does 'nrformats' leak from the popup window buffer???
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +020050 Happens in Test_simple_popup() at:
51 call VerifyScreenDump(buf, 'Test_popupwin_04a', {})
52 Only when this line is in defaults.vim:
53 set nrformats-=octal
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020054- For the "moved" property also include mouse movement?
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020055- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020056 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
57- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
58 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for more commands.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020059- Figure out the size and position better.
60 if wrapping splits a double-wide character
61 if wrapping inserts indent
62- When drawing on top half a double-wide character, display ">" or "<" in the
63 incomplete cell.
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020064
65Text properties: See comment at top of src/textprop.c.
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +020066- Implement prop_find() #4970
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020067
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020068'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010069- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
70 was set. (#3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020071- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
72 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010073- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
74 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020075- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020076- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020077- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
78 isn't one?
79 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
80
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020081Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +020082- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020083- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010084- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020085
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020086Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020087- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010088- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
89 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020090- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +010091- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020092- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
93 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
94 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010095- Add support for lldb? #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010096- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
97 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +010098 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010099 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200100
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200101Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200102- When typing "exit" in a terminal window with a shell and it's the only
103 window, should exit Vim instead of editing another buffer. (#4539)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100104- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
105 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
106 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100107- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
108 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200109- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
110 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200111- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200112- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200113- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
114 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200115- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
116 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200117- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
118 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
119- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
120 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200121- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
122 is disabled.
123- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
124- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
125 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200126- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
127 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
128 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
129- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
130- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
131 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
132- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
133 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200134
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200135Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200136E279, E290, E292, E362, E366, E450, E451, E452,
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200137E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
138E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E863, E889, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200139
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200140Try out enabling modifyOtherKeys in xterm:
141 CSI > 4 ; 2 m
142Need to disable when going to cooked mode:
143 CSI > 4 ; m
144Known problems:
145- CTRL-V key inserts Esc sequence
146
147Patch to skip tests that don't work when run as root. (James McCoy, #5020)
148Or just bail out completely?
149
150Patch to test right click. (Dominique Pelle, #5018)
151
152Python output doesn't stop when got_int is set. #5053
153Check got_int in write_output() in if_py_both.h?
154
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200155Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
156manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
157Athena is OK.
158Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
159
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200160Improve running tests on MS-Windows: #4922
161
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200162In a function these two lines are different:
163 let [a, b, c] =<< trim END fails
164 let [a,b,c] =<< trim END works
165issue #5051
166
167Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
168Should be ready to include now.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200169
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200170Remove check for cmd_silent when calling search_stat()? (Gary Johnson)
171
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200172undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
173
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200174Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
175
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200176Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200177
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200178Patch for #4733: #4734. Test needs improvements.
179
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200180Patch to sort buffers on b_last_used time. (Andy Massimino, #4722)
181
182Patch to highlight the line number differently below the cursor line. (Shaun
183Brady, #624)
184
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200185Patch to add more tests for cmd.exe: #4928
186
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200187Patch to fix session file when using multiple tabs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May
18820)
189Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
190remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200191Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200192
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200193Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
194Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
195terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
196Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
197(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200198
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200199Patch to use timers in matchparen. (Daniel Hahler, #1338)
200Ready to include now?
201
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100202Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
203(#4087)
204
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200205":helptags ALL" should skip directories where "tags" cannot be written.
206(Matěj Cepl, #5026)
207
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200208":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
209goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
210unlisted. (#4478)
211
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200212Patch to fix using zero sc_sid. (#4877)
213
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200214Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
215
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200216Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
217Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
218
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200219Make 'showbreak' global-local.
220
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200221The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
222support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
223
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200224Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
225
226Patch to add v:argv, arguments that Vim was started with. (Dmitri
227Vereshchagin, #1322)
228
229New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
230
231Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
232It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
233Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
234Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
235
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200236Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
237(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
238
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200239When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
240default one. #4698
241
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200242Patch to remove FORTIFY_SOURCE also from CPPFLAGS. (Benedikt Morbach, #2786)
243
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200244Patch from Namsh to allow building with both XIM and hangulin. (2019 Aug 29)
245
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200246When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
247with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
248
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200249Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200250Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200251
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200252Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
253Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
254New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
255
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200256Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
257fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
258
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200259Patch to add interrupt(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #2834)
260
261Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
262-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
263
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200264Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
265- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
266- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200267
268Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
26913, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200270
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200271Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
272
273Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
274
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200275xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
276buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
277Xterm 224 supports it!
278Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
279Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
280Also see issue #609.
281We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
282
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200283Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200284
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200285Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
286
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200287Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
288Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200289
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100290Errors found with random data:
291 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100292
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200293Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
294change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
295patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
296(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
297
298Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
299Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
300
301Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
302
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200303Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
304files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
305Include part of #3242?
306
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200307When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
308it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
309
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200310Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
311Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
312Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
313
314Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
315(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
316Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
317- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
318 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
319 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
320- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
321 covered by the above change.
322So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
323same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
324Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200325
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200326Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
327t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
328
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100329Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
330Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
331
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200332'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
333
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200334"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
335(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
336
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200337Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
338
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100339Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
340
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200341The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
342Give a few examples. (#4288)
343
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200344Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
345work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
346
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200347Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
3487 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
349 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
350 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
351
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100352Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
353read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
354be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
355
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200356":registers" should indicate char/block/linewise. (Ayberk Aydin, #4546)
357
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200358Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
359(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
360
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200361Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
362
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200363Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
364
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200365Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
366https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
367
368Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
369http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
370http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
371Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
372- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
373- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
374- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
375 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
376- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
377- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
378Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
379- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
380- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
381Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
382- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
383
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100384Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
385Mar 5)
386
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200387Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
388- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
389 line.
390- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
391 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
392- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
393 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
394
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200395Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
396on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
397
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200398Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
399in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
400buffer didn't change at all.
401
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200402Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
403register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
404(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
405
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200406Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
407(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
408
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200409Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
410":let buf = bufcreate('name')
411
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200412Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
413'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
414(#4450)
415
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100416When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
417But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
418similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
419
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200420C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
421(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
422
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100423Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
424"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
425
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100426Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
427added?
428
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200429Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
430maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
431
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200432Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
433negative. (see #4326)
434
435'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
436`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
437tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
438:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
439
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200440This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
441 vim: syn=nosyntax
442
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200443":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
444a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
445
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100446Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
447#2948. (related to #1512?)
448On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
449balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
45020, #2481)
451Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
452Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
453balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
4542018 Sep 14)
455Another request: #3811.
456
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200457More warnings from static analysis:
458https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200459
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100460Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
461
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200462Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
463
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200464Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
465internals of the dict structure.
466
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100467nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
468
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200469Missing tests for:
470- add_termcap_entry()
471
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200472Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
473change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
474them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
475
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100476When using exclusive selection and vi" that fails, cursor moves to the left.
477Cursor should not move. (#4024)
478
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100479Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
480Also run all tests with C locale?
481
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100482"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
483#3927
484
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200485Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200486Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200487
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100488When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
489case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
490For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
491
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200492Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
493(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
494expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200495
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200496Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
497 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
498 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
499
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100500Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100501punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100502
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200503ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
504
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200505Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
506":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
507#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
508Updated 2019 May 25.
509
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200510Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
511drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
512
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200513Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
514is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
515
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100516When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
517scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
518using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
519
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200520Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
521#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
522(Sep 8)
523
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200524Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
525unified diff (list of lines).
526
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100527When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
528kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
529when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
530
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100531Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
532(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100533
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100534Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
535
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200536Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200537Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200538memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200539Memory leak in test_terminal:
540==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
541==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
542==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
543==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
544==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
545==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
546==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
547==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
548==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200549TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100550Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200551Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
552Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200553
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200554gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200555
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200556matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
55719.
558
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100559Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
560Probably window.
561Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
562highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200563And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
564'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100565
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100566Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
567Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
568
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200569Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
570Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
571Not ready to include.
572
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200573Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
574Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
575Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
576
577Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
578
579Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
580screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
581
582Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
583 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
584 Not ready to include.
585
586Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
587Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
588
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200589home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
590
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200591When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
592terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
593How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
594
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200595Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
596
597Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
598(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
599
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100600Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
601Feedback from someone who uses this?
602
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200603ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
604
605Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
606Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
607values.
608
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100609Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200610- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
611- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
612- omit diff.exe from distribution
613- Can we make this show differences within a line?
614- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200615
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200616Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
617
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100618Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
619What is the practical use for this?
620
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200621When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
622includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
623
624Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200625Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200626
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200627MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
628(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
629
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100630Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
631
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200632Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
633
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200634Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
635when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
636
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100637Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
638mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
639
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200640Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
641
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200642Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
643modified buffers
644 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
645 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
646 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
647 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
648
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100649Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
650- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
651- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
652- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100653- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
654
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200655Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
656characters. (#3246)
657
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200658'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
659
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100660Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
661Oct 28)
662
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200663ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
664Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
665Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
666Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
667
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100668Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
669- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
670
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200671Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
672- Test_setbufvar_options()
673- Test_exit_callback_interval()
674
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200675Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
676Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100677Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
678Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200679
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200680Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
681
682Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
68324)
684
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100685Try out background make plugin:
686 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
687or asyncmake:
688 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
689
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100690Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100691mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100692
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200693Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
694is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
695used for git temp files.
696
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100697Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
698
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200699Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
700#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
701
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200702Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
703behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
704(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
705
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200706Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
707pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
708
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200709Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
710script or function.
711
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200712When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
713E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
714does nothing otherwise?
715
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200716MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
717If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
718(wait a little while).
719CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100720
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200721Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
722MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
7232017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
724receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
725
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200726Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
727missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
728
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200729":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
730deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
731
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200732Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200733
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100734Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200735Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
736
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200737With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
738included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
739(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
740
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200741Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200742Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200743
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100744Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100745Jan 15, #2555)
746
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200747":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
748
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200749Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
750It's an awful lot of code for something that is just a bit nicer syntax.
751
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100752Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
753
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100754No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
755No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
756
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200757Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
758http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
759Should be supported with a flag.
760
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100761Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
762confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
763
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100764Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
765
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100766Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
767Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
768applying the diff, etc.
769
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200770Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
771Apr 26, #2849)
772
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100773User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
774word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100775
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100776Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200777
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200778With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
779(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
780
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200781Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
782:drop (remote commands).
783
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200784Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
7852018 Jun 18, #3027)
786
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200787Implement option_save() and option_restore():
788option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
789 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
790 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
791 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
792 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
793 be called when the same window is the current window.
794 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
795 the local options won't be restored.
796
797option_save({list}) *option_save()*
798 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
799 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
800 let s:saved_options = option_save([
801 \ 'ignorecase',
802 \ 'iskeyword',
803 \ ])
804 au <buffer> BufLeave *
805 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
806< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
807 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
808 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
809 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100810 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
811 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
812 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100813 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200814
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100815"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
816directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
817Also see #1689.
818
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100819crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
82017, #2652)
821
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100822When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100823highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100824
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200825":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
826
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100827No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
8282017 Dec 26, #2501)
829
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200830A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
831
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200832Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
833
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200834A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
835Mention where they were defined somewhere.
836
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100837Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
838(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
839
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200840ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
841
842Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
843
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100844Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
845Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
846
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100847Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
848in #846)
849Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
850
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200851Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
852Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
853
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100854When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
855redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200856
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100857In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
858(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
859
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100860Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
861neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100862
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100863Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
864Nov 21)
865
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200866When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
867triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
868set_color_count().
869
870Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
871responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
872
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100873When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
874CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
875Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
876always nested.
877
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200878matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
879
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100880Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
881
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100882MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100883for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
884
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200885Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100886(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200887
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200888Test runtime files.
889Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200890
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200891Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200892
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200893Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
894defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
895Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
896
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200897After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
89813, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200899
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200900When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
901line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
902
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100903The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
904
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200905Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
906set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
907
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100908Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
909
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200910Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
911behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
912
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100913'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
914
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200915The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
916
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100917When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
918a command can delete it.
919
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200920Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
921#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
922
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100923The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
924for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
925
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200926X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
927pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
928clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
929Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
930Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
931clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200932Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200933
934Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
935
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200936Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
937attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
938that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
939
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200940Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
941(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
942
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100943Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
944buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
945Also fixes #2166?
946
947Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
948
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200949Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
950stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
951
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100952Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
953possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
954
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200955When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
956case of :bwipe followed by :new.
957
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200958Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
959existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
960Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
961
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200962Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200963
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200964MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
965Jul 4)
966
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200967Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
968Drucker, 2017 May 8).
969This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
970Christian cannot reproduce it.
971
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200972Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
973wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
974Or is this not an actual problem?
975
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200976Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
977
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200978Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
979
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200980Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
981
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200982'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
983#1736)
984
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200985Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
9868, #1690)
987
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200988Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
989(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
990
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200991Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
992it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
993
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200994Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
995Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
996How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
997
998Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
999(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1000
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001001Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1002
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001003assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1004it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1005
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001006Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1007for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001008
1009Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1010(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1011Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1012later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1013Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1014mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001015Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1016mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001017maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001019Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001020plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1021be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1022
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001023Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1024 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1025 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001026
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001027json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001028What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001029
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001030Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1031
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001032import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1033(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1034
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001035When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1036buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1037Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001038
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001039Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1040Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001041Another example in #1309
1042
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001043When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1044when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1045
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001046Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1047#1330)
1048
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001049Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1050
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001051Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1052
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001053GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1054g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1055timer expires.
1056
1057Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1058
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001059Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1060highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1061
10628 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1063 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1064
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001065Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1066Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1067
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001068Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1069key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1070 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1071 echo keytrans(xx)
1072 <C-Home>
1073
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001074Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1075(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1076Make a function to check for function-like type?
1077
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001078Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1079(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1080
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001081Implement optional arguments for functions.
1082 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
1083 call Foo(12)
1084 call Foo(12, all = 0)
1085 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001086
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001087Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1088somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1089
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001090Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1091(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1092
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001093Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001094Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001095Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001096
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001097The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1098"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1099Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1100
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001101Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1102
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001103Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1104about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001105Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1106
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001107Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1108#1053) With patch, does it work?
1109
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001110":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001111vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1112
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001113Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001114E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001115Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001116
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001117Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1118Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1119
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001120Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001121Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001122
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001123"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1124(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1125
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001126Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1127(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001128Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001129
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001130'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1131
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001132Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1133
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001134When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1135Apr 23, #1653)
1136
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001137Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1138anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1139
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001140Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001141E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001142
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001143Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1144(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1145
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001146Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1147
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001148On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1149separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1150
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001151min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1152contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1153
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001154Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1155
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001156Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1157
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001158Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1159
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001160Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1161no longer support.
1162
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001163sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
11644#1038)
1165
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001166+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001167- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001168- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1169 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001170- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1171- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1172 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1173- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1174 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1175- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001176- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1177 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001178- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1179- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1180 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1181 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1182- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1183- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1184- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1185 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1186 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1187- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1188 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1189- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1190 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1191 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1192
1193Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001194- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1195 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1196 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1197 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001198- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1199 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001200- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1201 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1202- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1203 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1204- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1205 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1206 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1207 LC_CTYPE
1208- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1209 matches everywhere.
1210- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1211 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1212- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1213- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1214 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1215- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1216- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1217 2013 Dec 11)
1218- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1219 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1220- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1221- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1222 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1223- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1224- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1225- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1226- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1227 2015 Feb 7)
1228- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1229 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1230 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1231 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1232 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1233- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1234- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1235- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1236- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1237 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1238 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1239 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1240- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1241 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1242- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1243 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1244 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1245 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1246
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001247Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1248#1350)
1249
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001250Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
12513. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1252Also see #1635.
1253
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001254Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001255Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1256use the current behavior.
1257Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001258
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001259When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1260command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1261
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001262Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1263doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1264Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001265Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001266E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1267
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001268execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001269#1141)
1270
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001271cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1272
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001273:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1274
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001275Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1276
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001277When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1278synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1279
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001280Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1281Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001282
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001283Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1284(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1285
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001286ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1287Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001288
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001289Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1290
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001291Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001292(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001293
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001294Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1295Jul 25, #948)
1296
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001297Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1298names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1299Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1300the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1301
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001302Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1303(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1304Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1305
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001306'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1307
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001308MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1309Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001310
1311Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1312Also for ":@.".
1313
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001314Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1315
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001316Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1317#1125
1318
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001319Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1320times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1321
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001322Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1323
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001324Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1325
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001326Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1327
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001328Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1329
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001330We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1331the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1332
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001333Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1334
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001335When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1336emoji_width table has only one entry.
1337
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001338It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1339Reject the value? #710.
1340
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001341When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1342Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1343
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001344Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001345
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001346Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1347No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001348
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001349Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1350(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001351
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001352Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1353
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001354Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1355https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1356Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1357
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001358Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1359but the reference remains valid.
1360
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001361Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001362interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1363Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1364interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1365result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001366
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001367Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001368work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001369
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001370Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1371
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001372Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1373
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001374Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1375Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1376
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001377When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1378Apr 17) #762
1379
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001380exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1381Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1382
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001383Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1384'iskeyword' for syntax.
1385
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001386Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1387(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1388
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001389Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1390
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001391When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1392maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001393Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001394
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001395Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1396It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1397Add configure check?
1398Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1399Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1400Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1401
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001402Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1403Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1404
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001405Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1406Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1407
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001408":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1409directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1410
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001411In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1412(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1413
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001414If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
14152016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001416
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001417Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1418(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1419
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001420Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1421
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001422When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1423restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1424Do not trigger the event?
1425
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001426Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1427changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1428and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001429Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1430Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
14316, 2nd message)
1432Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001433
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001434Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1435Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1436https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1437
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001438Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1439With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1440
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001441Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001442
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001443Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1444
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001445Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001446Only remembers one error.
1447
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001448GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001449
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001450Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1451(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001452
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001453Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1454github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001455 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001456Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001457
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001458Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001459
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001460Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001461comparing individual items.
1462Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1463Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1464Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1465equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1466
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001467Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1468
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001469MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1470wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1471
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001472Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1473specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1474
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001475Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1476(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1477
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001478Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001479inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001480
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001481Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1482(Luchr, #277)
1483
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001484Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001485'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1486before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001487
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001488C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1489and also line continuation after #include.
1490I can't recommend it though.
1491
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001492Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1493(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1494
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001495To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1496library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1497
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001498When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1499is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1500
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001501Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
150230)
1503
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001504MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1505(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1506
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001507The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
150824): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001509
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001510":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1511effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1512
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001513":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15149)
1515
1516The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1517wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1518
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001519Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001520Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001521
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001522When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1523the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1524
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001525Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001526slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1527inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1528
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001529ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15302014 Sep 11)
1531
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001532Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1533(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1534
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001535When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1536'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1537
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001538Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1539Work in progress.
1540
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001541Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1542when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1543
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001544Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1545Is this right?
1546
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001547Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1548(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1549Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1550
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001551Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1552Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001553
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001554Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1555Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1556
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001557Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1558
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001559When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1560filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1561initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1562
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001563Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1564
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001565Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1566OK to not block marks?
1567
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001568Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1569
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001570Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1571
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001572When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1573(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1574
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001575Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001576
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001577Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1578(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1579
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001580When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1581any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1582
1583Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001584
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001585Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001586
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001587Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1588(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1589
1590Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1591
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001592Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1593Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1594was already defined.
1595(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1596
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001597Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1598
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001599Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001600Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001601Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001602Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001603
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001604Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1605(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1606
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001607Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1608(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1609
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001610Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1611
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001612When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1613these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1614window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1615
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001616Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1617should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1618history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1619Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1620
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001621"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1622Jun 8)
1623
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001624Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1625insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1626
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001627No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1628
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001629Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1630(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1631Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1632arguments.
1633
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001634Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1635
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001636Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001637
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001638Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
16390x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1640New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1641compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1642
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001643Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1644a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1645
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001646Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1647right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001648its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001649
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001650Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1651
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001652This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1653 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1654This neither: (ZyX)
1655 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1656
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001657'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1658Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1659from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001660
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001661Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16622014 Jun 8)
1663
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001664Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001665Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001666Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1667Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1668User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001669- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1670 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1671 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001672- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1673- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1674 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1675 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1676 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1677 on vim.org.
1678- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1679 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1680- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1681- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1682- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1683- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1684Implementation:
1685- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1686 plugin separate.
1687- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1688 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1689 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1690- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1691 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1692- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1693 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1694 installing.
1695Out of scope:
1696- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1697- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1698 useful).
1699
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001700Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1701normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001702
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001703When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1704menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1705
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001706Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1707(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1708
1709":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1710various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001711
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001712Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001713(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1714
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001715VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1716instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1717
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001718Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001719Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001720
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001721Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001722command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001723
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001724Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1725
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001726Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1727highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001728
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001729The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1730For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1731
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001732Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001733possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001734
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001735Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001736
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001737Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1738
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017397 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1740 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1741 "lucida_console:h8").
1742Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1743
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001744:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1745
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001746Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1747
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001748Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1749
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001750When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1751(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1752
1753Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001754Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001755
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001756GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1757(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1758
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001759Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1760registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1761
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001762Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1763
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001764The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1765(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1766Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1767
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001768The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1769- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1770- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1771
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001772Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1773Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1774reliably?
1775
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001776Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1777(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1778
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001779Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1780(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1781
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001782Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17832013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001784
1785Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1786
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001787Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17885)
1789
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001790Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1791carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1792
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001793Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1794highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1795
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001796Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001797
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001798Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200179928) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001800
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001801Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1802
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001803Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1804
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001805- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1806 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1807Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001808
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001809Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001810
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001811In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1812process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1813a reboot.
1814
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001815patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1816
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001817Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1818not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001819
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001820Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1821Or use expand('<sid>')?
1822
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001823Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1824
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001825Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1826
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001827b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18287)
1829
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001830Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1831compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1832
1833Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1834Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1835vim.bindeval().
1836
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001837Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18382012 Aug 4)
1839
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001840Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1841(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1842
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001843Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1844But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1845
1846Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1847Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1848Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001849
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001850Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1851loading all files.
1852
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001853MS-Windows resizing problems:
1854- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1855 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1856- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1857 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1858 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001859
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001860'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001861
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001862Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001863of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1864
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001865The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1866Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1867But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001868
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001869When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1870is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1871
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001872URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001873- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001874- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1875 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1876
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001877Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1878(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1879Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1880
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001881Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001882New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001883
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001884When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1885for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1886Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001887
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001888Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1889
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001890Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1891
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001892Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1893Apr 18)
1894
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001895Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1896And one for gui_x11.txt.
1897
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001898":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1899finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1900Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1901
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001902Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1903
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001904Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1905
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001906Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1907they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1908
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001909Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1910
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001911Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1912Nov 20)
1913
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001914Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001915Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001916
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001917`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001918(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1919
1920Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1921
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001922BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1923Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1924
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001925Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1926Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1927
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001928Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1929
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001930On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19312012 Jun 19)
1932
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001933'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1934'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1935Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001936Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001937
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001938With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1939(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1940need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1941
1942Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1943only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
194421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1945
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001946Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1947New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1948
1949Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1950Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1951
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001952Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1953Jan 19)
1954
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001955Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1956discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1957meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001958
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001959"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001960Oct 26)
1961
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001962Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1963
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001964With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1965register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001966
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001967Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1968
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001969When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1970(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1971
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001972When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1973then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1974from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1975
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001976Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1977":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
197815)
1979
1980Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1981
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001982BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1983cleared. See test64.
1984
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001985Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001986effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001987Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001988https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001989
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001990On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
199164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1992right type.
1993
1994string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1995(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1996
1997When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1998(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001999When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2000following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2001(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002002
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002003When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2004doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2005
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002006Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2007
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002008maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2009mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2010
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002011Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2012(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2013
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002014When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2015indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2016the help file.
2017
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002018After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2019Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2020
2021Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2022
2023"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2024
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002025Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2026
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002027Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002028
2029Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
20302010 Dec 18)
2031
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002032With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2033number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2034Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2035
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002036Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2037Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2038
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020398 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2040Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2041
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002042Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2043one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2044the match scrolls into view.
2045
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020467 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2047Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2048Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2049
20509 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2051 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2052Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2053
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002054Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2055Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2056
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002057In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2058or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2059sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2060
2061GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2062doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2063
2064GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2065
2066Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2067Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2068
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002069Wish for NetBeans commands:
2070 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2071
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002072Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2073
20747.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2075there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2076do?
2077
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002078Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
207922)
2080
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002081New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2082- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002083- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002084 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2085
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002086"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20872011 Feb 27)
2088
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002089Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2090^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2091
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002092When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2093exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20949) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2095
2096g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2097the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2098
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002099Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2100crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2101
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002102Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2103number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2104
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002105Regexp engine performance:
2106- Profiling:
2107 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2108 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2109 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2110 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2111 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2112 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2113- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2114- Performance tests:
2115 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2116 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2117 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2118 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2119 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2120 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2121 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2122 'hlsearch'.
2123 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2124 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2125 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2126 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2127
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002128Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2129Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2130
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002131'beval' option should be global-local.
2132
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002133Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002134
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002135setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002136
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002137With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21382010 Oct 24)
2139
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002140Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2141
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002142When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2143Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2144
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002145":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2146
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002147'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2148
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002149C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2150checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2151Issue 46.
2152
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002153Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2154
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002155Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2156gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2157
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002158":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2159accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2160
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002161Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2162setwinvar().
2163
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002164Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002165
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002166When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2167instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2168
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002169Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2170Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2171Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002172
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002173Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2174back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2175
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002176Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002177Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2178
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002179CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2180the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2181FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2182
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002183Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2184Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2185
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002186Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2187Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2188
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002189Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2190
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002191Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2192non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002193
2194iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2195Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2196or replace with a character and continue?
2197
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002198Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2199Requires configure check for localtime().
2200Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2201
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002202Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2203Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2204
2205Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2206
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002207Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2208Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2209path.
2210
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002211Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002212Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002213
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002214'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2215
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002216":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2217like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2218
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002219Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2220https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002221
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002222Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22232010 Nov 5)
2224
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002225Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002226Jan 7)
2227
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002228Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2229
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002230With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2231entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2232Feb 12)
2233
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002234Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2235characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2236
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002237Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2238
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002239Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2240 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2241
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002242Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2243
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002244When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2245Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002247When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2248not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2249string value.
2250
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002251For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002252line argument -noregister.
2253
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002254When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2255missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2256
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002257When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2258doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002259
2260Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2261(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2262Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2263There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2264Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2265
2266":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2267highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2268to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2269
2270Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2271Probably needs a bit of work.
2272
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002273List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002274Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2275
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002276Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2277
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002278Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2279
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002280Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2281Sep 1)
2282
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002283Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2284
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002285Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2286on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2287
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002288Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22892009 Jul 18)
2290
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002291Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2292window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2293Needs more work.
2294
2295Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2296
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002297When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2298few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2299
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002300'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002301(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2302
2303Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2304J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2305
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002306When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2307for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2308
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002309Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2310
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002311":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2312because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2313ex_docmd.c.
2314
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002315Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002316Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2317
2318string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2319for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2320
2321Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2322
2323'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
232420)
2325
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002326Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
23272009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2328
2329Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2330
2331Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2332SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2333
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002334When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2335indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2336(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2337
2338Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2339are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2340Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2341Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2342that doesn't have a window.
2343
2344When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2345doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2346
2347getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2348displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2349
2350":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2351
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002352There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2353was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2354perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2355
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002356Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2357
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002358Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2359command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2360
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002361Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2362does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2363
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002364opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2365height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002366very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2369(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2370
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002371Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002372(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2373
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002374Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2375char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2376
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002377Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2378Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2379
2380This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2381
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002382Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2383messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2384es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23852009 Jan 26)
2386
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002387When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002388in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2389Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2390
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002391Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2392a modeline.
2393
2394Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2395Sergey Khorev)
2396
2397Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2398part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002399
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002400After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2401correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2402
2403Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2404(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2405
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002406shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002407'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2408Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2409unix-like shell?
2410
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002411Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2412register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2413(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2414
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002415Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2416Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2417
2418Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2419make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2420
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002421When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2422still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2423
2424"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2425(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2426
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002427Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2428that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2429ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2430Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2431
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002432MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2433doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2434probably causes this.
2435
2436'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024372009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002438
2439Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2440 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2441 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2442(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2443
2444Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2445":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2446option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2447is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002448
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002449":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2450first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002451Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002452
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002453Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2454laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2455Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002456
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002457Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2458anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2459
2460On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2461doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2462Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2463Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2464
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002465When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2466'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2467fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2468the buffer to be unmodified.
2469Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2470another look at it.
2471
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002472c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2473(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2474
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002475You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2476error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2477Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2478at the other match for 0xBF.
2479
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002480When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2481argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2482
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002483Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2484backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2485
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002486When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2487line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2488
2489Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2490position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2491
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002492After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2493(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002494command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002495
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002496":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2497Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2498
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002499When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2500either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2501put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2502
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002503Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2504Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2505Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2506Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2507(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2508
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002509Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2510
2511ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002512
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002513Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2514(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2515escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2516an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002517This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2518July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002519Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2520work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2521
2522When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
252331)
2524
2525Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2526work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2527Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002528
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002529Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2530multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2531(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2532
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002533Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25342008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002535Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002536
2537Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2538Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2539'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2540
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002541Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2542Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2543
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002544Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2545Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2546
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025478 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2548 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2549 several).
2550 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2551 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2552 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2553Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2554
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002555The utf class table is missing some entries:
2556 0x2212, minus sign
2557 0x2217, star
2558 0x2500, bar
2559 0x26ab, circle
2560
2561Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2562line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2563
2564GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2565Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2566
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002567Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2568try the Cocoa version.
2569
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002570Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2571changed or the window is resized.
2572
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002573GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2574the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2575
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002576Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2577Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002578
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002579Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25801) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2581
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002582C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2583with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2584Try to reproduce at work.
2585
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002586Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2587Is there a way to list all the files first?
2588
2589When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2590result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
259116)
2592
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002593Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2594(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2595
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002596Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2597Await response to question to make the register writable.
2598
2599Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26001)
2601
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002602In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2603each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2604
2605try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2606
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002607try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2608
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002609":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2610Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2611
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002612Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2613
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002614Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2615Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2616
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002617Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2618Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2619Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002620
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002621When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2622and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2623
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002624Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2625 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2626
2627New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2628
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002629":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2630a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2631
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002632'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2633Likonen, March 19)
2634
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002635Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2636other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2637
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002638The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2639appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2640matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2641
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002642When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2643character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2644'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2645(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2646
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002647Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2648Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002649
2650More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2651
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002652Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2653http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2654
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002655Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2656back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2657Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002658
2659Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2660No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2661
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002662Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2663terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002664
2665Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2666
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002667Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2668but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2669that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002670
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002671Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2672Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2673
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002674Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2675popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2676size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2677This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2678
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002679When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2680it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2681
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002682Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2683then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2684files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002685Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2686indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2687":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002688in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2689quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002690Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002691
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002692When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2693parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2694neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2695particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2696Jun 3)
2697However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2698the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002699
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002700A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2701Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2702
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002703Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2704Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2705
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002706Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2707switch list is noticed:
2708 switch (i)
2709 {
2710 case 1:
2711 foobar:
2712 }
2713
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002714Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2715
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002716Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2717with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2718go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2719moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2720
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002721Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002722GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002723Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2724argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2725(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2726
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002727Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2728(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2729
2730Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2731makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2732.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002733 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002734
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002735Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27362007 Feb 8)
2737
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002738Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2739set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002740
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002741Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2742
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002743Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2744Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2745New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2746patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2747
2748Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2749Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2750
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002751Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
27522007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002753Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002754
2755Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002756label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2757
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002758Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2759with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2760Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002761
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002762Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2763
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002764Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2765Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2766only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2767
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002768Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2769Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002770Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002771properly?
2772
2773Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27742007 Jun 21)
2775
2776When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2777Jun 18)
2778
2779If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2780
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002781Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2782windows. (Adam George)
2783
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002784In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2785the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2786
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002787C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2788
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002789":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2790
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002791When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002792error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002793
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002794GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002795use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2796
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002797Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2798if_ruby.c.
2799
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002800":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2801
2802The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2803it in keep_msg?
2804
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002805Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002806error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002807name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2808
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002809Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2810longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002811
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002812Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2813Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2814Also for ":w" without a file name.
2815The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002816
2817"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2818Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2819
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002820VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2821directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2822(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2823
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002824VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2825
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002826input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2827name?
2828
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002829Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2830
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002831When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2832(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2833Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2834will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2835
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002836gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2837This also fails with --remote.
2838
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002839When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28402008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2841all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2842
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002843aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2844
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002845When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2846(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2847
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002848Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2849the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2850
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002851GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2852
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002853Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2854superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2855
2856Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2857character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2858
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002859Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2860Jun 5)
2861
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002862Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28632008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2864Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2865
2866In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2867but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2868Jul 22)
2869
2870There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2871
2872Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2873":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2874somehow? Or use a new function.
2875
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002876Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2877
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2879moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2880that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2881
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002882The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2883
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002884When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002885cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2886the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2887
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002888These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2889 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2890 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2891 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2892
2893Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2894partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2895
2896In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2897buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2898reload it then?
2899
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002900For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2901
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002902Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2903only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2904
2905Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2906tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2907doesn't contain other directories.
2908
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002909Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2910Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2911
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002912Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2913 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2914 set background=dark
2915This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2916color is, not reset it.
2917
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002918Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2919start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2920show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2921middle?
2922
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002923Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2924
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002925When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2926current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2927the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2928
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002929When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2930Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2931
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002932Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2933Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2934
2935Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2936
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002937A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2938Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2939
2940Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2941Dara, 2006 June 21)
2942
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002943Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2944number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2945
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002946After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2947the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2948
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002949Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002950
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002951Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2952Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2953
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002954Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029552008 Sep 29)
2956
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002957In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2958check the result of has("patch13").
2959
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002960Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2961restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2962
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002963Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2964and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2965
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002966Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2967put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2968
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002969Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2970resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2971
2972In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2973can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2974
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002975GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2976maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2977doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002978Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2979visible.
2980
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002981When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2982differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002983
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002984The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2985be only one.
2986
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002987Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002988"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2989name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2990Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002991
2992Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2993(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2994
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002995Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2996as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2997
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002998Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
299923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003000
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003001":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3002tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3003Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003004
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003005When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3006text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3007latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3008
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003009Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3010no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3011
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003012In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3013VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30142007 Oct 16)
3015
3016TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3017Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3018
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003019Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003020
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003021When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3022typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3023Sep 3, 11)
3024
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003025":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3026this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3027
3028When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3029Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3030restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3031
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003032Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30332010 Jun 30)
3034
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003035Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3036'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3037(Kartik Agaram)
3038
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003039
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003040Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003041- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3042 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3043- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3044 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3045 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3046- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3047 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3048 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003049- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3050- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003051
3052
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003053More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003054- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3055 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003056- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003057- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3058 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003059- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3060- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3061- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3062 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3063 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003064- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003065- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3066 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3067- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3068 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3069- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3070 21)
3071- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3072 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3073- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3074 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003075- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3076 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003077- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3078 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3079 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3080 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3081 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003082- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003083
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003084Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030859 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3086 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3087 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3088 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3089 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3090 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3091 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3092 (Alan Schmitt)
3093 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003094 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3095 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030969 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003097 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030988 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030997 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3100 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3101 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031028 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003103 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031047 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003105 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3106- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3107 for multi-byte characters.
3108- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3109- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3110 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3111 been given values.
3112 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031137 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3114 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3115- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3116 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3117 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31188 Add functions:
3119 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3120 Update 2004 Sep 10
3121 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3122 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003123 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003124 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3125 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3126 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3127 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3128 (2003 May 13)
3129 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3130 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003131 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3132 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003133 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3134 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3135 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031367 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3137 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031387 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3139 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031408 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3141 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031427 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31438 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3144 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31457 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3146 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031477 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3148- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3149 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3150 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003151- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3152 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3153- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3154
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003155Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3156- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3157 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3158
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003159Quickfix/Location List:
3160- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3161 #2999)
3162- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3163 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3164 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3165 the quickfix buffer?
3166- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3167 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3168- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3169 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3170- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3171 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3172 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3173- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3174 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3175- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3176- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3177 2007 Jan 1)
3178- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3179 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3180- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3181 errors. How do we get the rest?
31828 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3183 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3184 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3185 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31867 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3187 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003188
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003189Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003190- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3191 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031928 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3193 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3194 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3195 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3196 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3197 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031988 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3199 make Vim exit.
32007 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3201 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3202 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32038 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3204 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3205 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32066 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3207 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3208 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32098 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3210 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3211 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3212 names in one buffer???
3213 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3214 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3215 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32167 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3217 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3218 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003219 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3220 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032217 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3222 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32237 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32247 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032257 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3226 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3227 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3228 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32297 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32307 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32317 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3232 to the match with the tag? Option?
32337 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32347 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3235 (Sayre).
32367 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3237 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032387 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3239 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3240 match. Nvi can do it too.
32417 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3242 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3243 line 1\ line 2\\
3244 line 2\ line 3\\
3245 . line4/
32466 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3247 the way the shell is started?
32486 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3249 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3250
3251
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003252GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032539 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032548 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3255 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3256 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032578 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3258 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3259 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032609 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3261 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3262 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3263 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003264- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3265 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3266 blocked for now.
3267
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003268
3269Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003270- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3271 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032728 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3273 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3274 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032756 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3276 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032778 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3278 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3279 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032807 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3281 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3282 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032837 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3284 2004 May 9)
32858 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3286 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3287 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3288 MS-Windows 98?
3289 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3290 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3291 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3292 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032938 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3294 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3295 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3296 doesn't work properly.
32978 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3298 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3299 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33009 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3301 button doesn't give popup menu.
3302 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3303 selection.
3304 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3305 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3306 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33078 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3308 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3309 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3310 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33118 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3312 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3313 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033147 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3315 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003316 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033177 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3318 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033196 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33208 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3321 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3322 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33238 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3324 know which keyboard is being used?
33257 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3326 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3327 area (Koloseike).
33288 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3329 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3330 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3331 the font name).
3332
3333
3334Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033356 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3336 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3337 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3338 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3339 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033409 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3341 required and it's missing?
33428 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3343 wrong.
33449 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3345 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033469 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003347 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3348 flag.
33498 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3350 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3351 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33528 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33536 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3354 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3355 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3356 the tooltips work though...
33577 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3358 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33598 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3360 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3361 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3362
3363
3364Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033659 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3366 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033679 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3368 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3369 through files.
33707 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3371 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33724 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3373 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3374 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3375 problem during a refresh.
33765 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3377 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3378 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3379 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3380 colors as it should.
3381 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3382 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3383
3384
3385Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003386- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033877 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3388 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033898 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3390 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3391 (Phillipps)
3392
3393
3394GUI:
33959 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3396 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33979 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003398 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003399 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34009 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3401 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34028 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3403 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34048 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3405 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3406 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34078 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3408 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3409 of where it is processing the output.
3410 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34118 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3412 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034138 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034148 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3415 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3416 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034178 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034188 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3419 browse().
34208 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3421 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34228 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3423 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034247 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3425 - regexp on/off
3426 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3427 when all buffers/directory is used:
3428 - filter for file name
3429 when directory is used:
3430 - subdirectory on/off
3431 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034328 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3433 to avoid problems.
34348 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3435 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3436 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34378 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3438 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3439 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34408 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3441 up. Set erase character somehow?
34428 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3443 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3444 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3445 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34468 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34477 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3448 visible.
34497 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3450 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34517 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3452 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34538 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3454 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34558 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3456 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3457 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3458 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3459- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34604 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3461 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3462 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3463
3464
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003465Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034668 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3467 a good fallback, thus use:
3468 $HOME
3469 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3470 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3471 $USERPROFILE
3472 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3473 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3474 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3475 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034768 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3477 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34788 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3479 Should work like in the GUI version.
34808 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3481 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34828 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3483 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34848 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3485 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3486 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034878 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3488 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3489 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3490
3491
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003492Win32 console:
34939 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3494 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3495 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3496 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3497 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3498 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3499 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3500 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3501 and the file is not saved.
3502 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3503 long name.
35048 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3505 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35067 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3507 besides the console.
35088 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35099 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3510 <C-S-i>?
35119 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3512 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35138 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3514 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003515
3516
3517Amiga:
35188 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3519 sequences.
35209 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3521 backslashes in result.
35228 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3523 all options, using white space separation.
3524
3525
3526Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003527- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035287 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3529 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3530 (Jack)
3531 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035328 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3533 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035348 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35358 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35369 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3537 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035389 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003539
3540
3541"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003542- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3543 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003544- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3545 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003546- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3547 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3548 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3549 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3550 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3551 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3552 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035539 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3554 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035559 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003556 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3557 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035588 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3559 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3560 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003561 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035627 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3563 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35648 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3565 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3566 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035677 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3568 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003569- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3570 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035718 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3572 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3573 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3574 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35757 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3576 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3577 invocations belong together.
35788 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3579 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35808 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3581 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3582 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003583 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035848 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3585 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3586 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035878 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3588 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035897 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3590 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3591 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3592 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035937 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3594 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3595 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35967 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3597 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3598 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35997 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3600 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036017 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3602 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036039 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3604 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3605 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3606 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3607 script can be called.
36088 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3609 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3610 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036118 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3612 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036138 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003614 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3615 configurable?
36168 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036178 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3618 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036198 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3620 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036218 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3622 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036239 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3624 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3625 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036267 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036278 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3628 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3629 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036308 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3631 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003632 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3633 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036348 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3635 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36369 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3637 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3638 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003639 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036407 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3641 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036427 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3643 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3644 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3645 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036468 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003647 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3648 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3649 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3650 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003651 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3652 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003653 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003654 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003655 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3656 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3657 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3658 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3659 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036608 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3661 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36628 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3663 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36648 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3665 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3666 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36678 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3668 'linebreak'.
36698 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3670 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3671 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036729 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3673 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3674 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3675 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36769 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3677 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036789 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36799 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3680 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3681 cause another redraw, etc.
36828 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3683 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36848 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3685 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3686 ":w!!" for that.
3687 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3688 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003689 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036907 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3691 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3692 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3693 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3694 clipboard)
36957 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3696 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3697 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036986 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3699 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3700 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037018 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3702 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37038 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3704 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3705 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37068 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3707 (e.g., ":w").
37088 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3709 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037108 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3711 script in do_cmdline().
37128 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3713 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3714 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3715 changes.
37168 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3717 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37188 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3719 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037208 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3721 to skip catch_signals()?
37229 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3723 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3724 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3725 text?
37268 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3727 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37288 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3729 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37309 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3731 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3732 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3733 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3734 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37357 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3736 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3737 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3738 in the list?
37398 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3740 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3741 instead of on button down.
37428 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37439 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3744 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003745 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3746 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037478 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3748 character is typed.
37498 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3750 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37518 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3752 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37538 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3754 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3755 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3756 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3757 cygwin bash.
37587 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3759 Remember flags for backreferences.
37607 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3761 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37627 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3763 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37648 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3765 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37667 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3767 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037687 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3769 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3770 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37717 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3772 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37738 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3774 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3775 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37767 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3777 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003778
3779
3780I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37819 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3782 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3783 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003784
3785
3786Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003787- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3788 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3789 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003790- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3791 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3792 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3793 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3794 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3795 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003796 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003797- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3798 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003799 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003800 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3801 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3802 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003803- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3804 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3805 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3806 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3807 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3808- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3809 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3810 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3811- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3812 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003813- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003814- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3815 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3816 character gets the highlighting.
3817- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3818 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3819- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3820 (Jennings)
3821- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003822- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003823- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003824 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003825- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3826 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3827 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3828- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3829 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3830 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3831 (Benzinger).
3832- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3833 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3834 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3835- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3836 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3837- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3838 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3839- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3840 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3841 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3842 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3843 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3844 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3845- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3846 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3847 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003848- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3849 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3850 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003851- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3852 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3853 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3854- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3855 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3856- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3857 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003858- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3859 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3860- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3861 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3862 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3863 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3864 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3865- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3866 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3867 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3868- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3869 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3870 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003871- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3872 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003873- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3874 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3875 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3876 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3877 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3878- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3879 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3880
3881--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3882 *extensions-improvements*
3883
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003884Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3885- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3886 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3887 calling a function.
3888 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3889 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003890- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3891 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003892 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003893- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3894 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3895 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3896 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3897 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3898 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003899 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003900- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3901 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3902 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003903- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3904 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039058 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3906 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3907 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3908 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003909- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3910 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003911
3912
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003913Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039148 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3915 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039168 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3917 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039188 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3919 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039208 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039219 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3922 - change to cursor position and curswant
3923 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3924 - how it works for folded lines
3925 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39269 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3927 work too.
39288 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3929 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3930 text.
39318 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39327 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3933 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39347 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3935 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003936 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003937- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3938
3939
3940Help:
3941- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3942 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3943- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3944 to the other matches.
3945- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003946- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3947 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3948 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3949 default contents.
3950- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3951 height for the help window (and other windows).
3952- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3953- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3954- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3955
3956
3957User Friendlier:
39588 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3959 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3960 Briscoe)
39618 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39628 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3963 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3964 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39658 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3966 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3967- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3968 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003969- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39709 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3971 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3972 item?).
3973 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039748 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039757 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3976 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3977 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039788 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3979 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3980 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3981 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003982
3983
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003984Tab pages:
39859 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039867 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3987 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039888 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039898 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039907 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039917 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003992 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039938 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3994 tab pages.
39957 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3996
3997
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003998Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003999- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
4000 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
4001- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4002 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4003 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4004- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4005 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004006- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4007 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4008 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004009- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4010 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4011 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004012- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4013 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004014- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004015 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4016 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040178 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4018 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40198 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4020 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40218 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4022 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004023 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004024 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4025 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4026 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4027 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004028- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4029 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004030- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004031- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4032 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004033- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004034 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004035- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004036 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004037- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4038 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004039- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4040 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4041- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004042 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004043 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4044 in the affix file separately.
4045 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004046 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004047 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4048 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4049 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4050- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4051 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4052 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4053 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4054 Alternative:
4055 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4056 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4057 affix which is required.
4058- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004059 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004060- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4061 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4062 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004063- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4064 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004065- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4066 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4067- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040688 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4069 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4070 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4071 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004072- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4073 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4074 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4075 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040768 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4077 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040788 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40798 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4080 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040817 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40828 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4083 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4084 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4085 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004086
4087
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004088Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040899 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4090 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040918 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004092 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004093
4094Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004095 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4096 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040978 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4098 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040998 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4100 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041018 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4102 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4103 user aware of this?
41048 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4105 commands skip over a closed fold.
41068 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41078 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041087 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004109- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4110 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4111 missing line goes unnoticed.
4112 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004113- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4114 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4115 smoother?
4116- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4117 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004118- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4119 file can contain:
4120 args version.c main.c
4121 edit version.c
4122 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004123- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004124- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4125 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004126- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4127 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004128- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4129 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004130- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004131
4132Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004133- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4134 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4135 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4136 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041379 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4138 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4139 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4140 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041419 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4142 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4143 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041448 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4145 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4146 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4147 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4148 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4149 item.
41508 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004151 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4152 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041538 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4154 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041558 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4156 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4157 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041587 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4159 so that the user can fix the problem.
41608 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4161 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041629 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41638 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041648 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41658 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041667 Searching and composing characters:
4167 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004168 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4169 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041708 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41718 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41728 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4173 characters.
41748 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41758 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4176 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41777 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4178 'display' option to specify this.
41797 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4180 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4181- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4182 fontselector somehow.
4183- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4184 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4185- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4186 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4187- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4188 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4189 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4190 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4191 if a font exists?
4192- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004193 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004194- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4195 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004196- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4197 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4198 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4199 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004200- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4201 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004202 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004203- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4204 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4205 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4206 But it's very complicated...
4207
4208
4209Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042107 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004211- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4212- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4213 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004214- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4215 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004216- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4217- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4218 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004219- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4220 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004221- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4222 units as for the margins.
4223- Support right-to-left text?
42248 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4225 color.
4226
4227
4228Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042298 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4230 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42318 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4232 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42338 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4234 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042357 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4236 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042378 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4238 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4239 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042407 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4241 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4242 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042438 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42449 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4245 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042467 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4247 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042487 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4249 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042508 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4251 change this for each release.
42528 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4253 pattern, but not in the body.
42548 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4255 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4256 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042578 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042588 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004259 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4260 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042618 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4262 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42638 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4264 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004265 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042668 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4267 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4268 used.
42698 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4270 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42718 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4272 re-insert the [] if possible.
42738 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4274 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042758 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4276 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4277 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4278 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4279 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042808 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4281 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42828 Support for deleting syntax items:
4283 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4284 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4285 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42868 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4287 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4288 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42897 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4290 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4291 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42927 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4293 detected.
42948 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004295 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042968 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4297 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042988 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42998 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43007 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4301 ":mkvimrc".
43028 Improve c.vim:
4303 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4304 "c_strict_ansi".
4305 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43068 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4307 current line while in Insert mode.
43088 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4309 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43108 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4311 display position.
43128 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4313 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4314 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43158 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4316 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4317 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043187 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4319 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4320 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4321 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4322 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043237 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4324 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4325 E.g. for this html:
4326 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043277 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43287 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4329 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043308 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43318 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043327 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4333 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4334 completion?
43358 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4336 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43377 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4338 select one of the sets.
43398 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4340 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4341 2, etc.
43428 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4343 highlighting (for "." command).
43448 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4345 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43468 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43477 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4348 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43496 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4350 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4351- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4352 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4353- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004354- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4355 (for comment blocks).
4356- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4357 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4358 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4359 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4360 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4361 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4362 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4363 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4364 (Campbell)
4365 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4366 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43677 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4368 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43697 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4370 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4371 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43727 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4373 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4374 messages. And external commands?
43758 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4376 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43777 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4378 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4379
4380
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004381Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043828 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4383 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004384 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043857 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4386 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4387 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043888 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4389 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004390- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043918 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4392 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4393 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4394 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4395 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4396 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043977 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4398 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043998 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044008 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4401 can be the plugin name.
4402 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4403 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044047 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4405 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4406 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4407 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4408 autocommand.
4409 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4410 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4411 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4412 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044137 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4414 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044156 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4416 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044178 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004418 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4419 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004420 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4421 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4422 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004423 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4424 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4425 3 2002
4426 Only add this when also implemented for
4427 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4428 be used.
4429 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004430 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4431 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4432 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4433 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4434 File.Open..." argument.
4435 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4436 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4437 with properties instead.
4438 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4439 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4440 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004441 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004442 crypt() encrypt string
4443 decrypt() decrypt string
4444 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4445 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004446 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004447 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004448 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004449 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004450 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004451 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4452 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004453 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4454 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004455 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004456 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4457 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4458 to allow the library to execute a command or
4459 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044607 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4461 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44628 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4463 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044648 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4465 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044668 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044679 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004468 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44696 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044708 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4471 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044728 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4473 option or environment variable.
44748 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044758 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004476 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044777 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4478 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044798 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4480 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44818 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44828 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4483 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4484 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4485 charwise({expr}).
44867 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4487 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4488 buffer for this?
4489 result = scratch(string, command)
4490 result = apply(string, command)
4491 result = execute(string, command)
4492 "command" would use <> notation.
4493 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44947 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004495
4496
4497Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044986 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4499 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4500 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4501 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4502 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4503 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4504 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004505
4506
4507Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045087 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4509 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045107 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4511 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4512 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4513 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045148 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4515 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4516 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4517 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004518 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045198 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45209 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45218 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45227 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4523 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45248 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4525 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4526 when starting up in a color terminal.
45278 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4528 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045298 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4530 function be improved?
45318 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4532 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4533 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4534 this be improved?
45358 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4536 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045377 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4538 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045397 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4540 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45417 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4542 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045437 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4544 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4545 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4546 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4547 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4548 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4549 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045508 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4551 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4552 using strcmp() too often?
45537 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4554 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4555 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4556 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4557 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4558 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45597 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4560 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4561 with an argument that can be messed with.
4562 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4563 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45647 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4565- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45668 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4567 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4568- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4569 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4570- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4571- Do profiling on:
4572 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004573 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4574 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4575 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4576 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4577 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4578 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004579 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045807 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4581 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4582 changed).
4583 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4584 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4585- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4586- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4587 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4588- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4589 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4590 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004591- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4592- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4593 cursor is right of the screen.
45948 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4595 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4596
4597
4598Code size:
45998 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4600- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4601 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46028 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46038 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4604 it.
46057 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4606 left out.
46078 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4608 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046098 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004610
4611
4612Messages:
46138 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4614 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46158 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4616 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46178 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4618 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004619- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4620 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4621- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046228 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4623 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046249 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4625 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4626 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4627 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4628 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046298 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4630 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46318 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4632 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4633 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4634 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4635 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4636 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004637- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004638 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046398 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4640 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4641 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4642 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4643 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4644 error messages, printing text, etc.
46458 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4646 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4647 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4648
4649
4650Screen updating:
46517 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4652 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4653 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4654- screen_line():
4655 - insert/delete character stuff.
4656 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4657- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4658 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4659- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4660 waiting for a character.
46618 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4662 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4663 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004664
4665Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046668 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046676 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4668- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4669 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4670 windows.
46717 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4672 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4673 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4674- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4675 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4676 (Goldfarb)
4677- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4678 bound windows.
4679- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4680 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004681- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004682- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4683 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4684 of lines but not with a single line).
4685
4686
4687Autoconf:
46888 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46898 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4690 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4691- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4692 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4693- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4694- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4695- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4696
4697
4698Perl interface:
46998 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047007 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47017 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47026 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4703
4704
4705Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047068 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4707 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047086 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4709 :libload internal-name libname
4710 :libunload internal-name
4711 :liblist
4712 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4713 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4714 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47156 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4716
4717
4718Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047199 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4720 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4721 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4722 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4723 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047248 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4725 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4726 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004727 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004728 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047297 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4730 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4731 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047328 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47338 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4734 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047357 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4736 window for each tag.
47377 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47387 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4739 bottom" search message.
47407 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4741 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4742 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004743- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4744- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004745- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4746 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4747 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047487 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4749 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4750 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4751 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47527 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4753 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4754 :tagargs clear
4755 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4756 matching).
47577 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4758 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4759 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4760 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47617 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4762 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47637 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4764 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4765 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004766
4767
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004768Win32 GUI:
47698 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4770 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047717 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4772 (Mike McCollister)
47738 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4774 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4775 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4776 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4777 common part of the path.
47788 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47798 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4780 gettext and menus work.
47818 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4782 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004783 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004784 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47858 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4786 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47878 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4788 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47897 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4790 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47917 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47927 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47937 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4794 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4795 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4796 prompts.
47977 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4798 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4799 the file added into an already running Vim.
48007 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4801 functions to find the window title.
4802
4803
4804GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048058 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004806- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4807 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
48087 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48098 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48106 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48118 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4812 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48139 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48147 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48158 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4816 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48178 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4818 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4819 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48208 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4821 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48228 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4823 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4824 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4825 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048267 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48278 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4828 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048297 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4830 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4831 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048328 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48338 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004834 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048358 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48368 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48378 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4838 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4839 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48407 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4841 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4842 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48437 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4844 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48457 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4846 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4847 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4848 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048497 Should support multi-column menus.
4850- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4851 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4852- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48538 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48546 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4855 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48567 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48577 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4858 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4859 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48607 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48618 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4862 name can be chosen free.
48637 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4864 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48656 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4866 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4867 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4868 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4869 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4870 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4871 things.
48727 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4873 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048747 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004875 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004876- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4877 where it was started from?
48787 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4879
4880
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004881Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048829 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4883 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004884- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048858 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4886 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4887 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4888 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48898 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4890 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048917 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4892 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4893 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4894 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048957 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048968 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4897 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048988 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4899 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4900 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049017 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4902 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4903 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049048 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4905 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4906 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049078 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4908 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049098 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049106 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4911 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049127 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049137 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004914 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4915 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4916 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049175 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4918 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4919 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49207 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4921 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4922 file.
49238 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4924 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4925 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004926- Add events to autocommands:
4927 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004928 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004929 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4930 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004931 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004932 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004933 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4934 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4935 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4936 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004937 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004938 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4939 the char.
4940 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4941 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4942 file from CVS).
4943 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4944 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4945 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4946 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4947 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4948 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004949 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4950 changes.
4951 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4952 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004953- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004954 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004955 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004956 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4957 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4958 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4959 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4960 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4961
4962
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004963Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004964- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4965 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004966- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4967 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4968 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4969 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4970 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004971- Ideas from others:
4972 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4973 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4974 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4975 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4976 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4977 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4978 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4979 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4980 Uses Perl for C++.
4981 Uses ctags to find the info:
4982 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4983 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4984 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4985 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4986 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4987 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004988 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004989 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4990- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4991
4992
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004993Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004994- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049957 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4996 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049977 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4998 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4999 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050008 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5001 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50029 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5003 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5004 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050058 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5006 - ignore/match case
5007 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050088 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5009 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5010 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5011 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5012 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5013 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050148 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050157 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5016 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050178 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5018 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5019 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5020 Should work for C++ and Java.
5021 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50227 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50237 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5024 instead of words.
50258 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50268 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5027 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50288 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5029 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005030- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5031 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005032- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5033 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5034 wildcards in the file name)?
5035- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5036- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5037- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5038 be in another file).
5039- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5040- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5041- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5042 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5043- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5044- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5045- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005046- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5047
5048
5049Command line editing:
50507 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5051 line.
50528 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5053 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5054 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5055- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5056 lines wraps to start of line).
5057- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5058 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5059 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5060 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5061 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5062 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5063 cmdwin does now already.
5064 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5065 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5066 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5067 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5068 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5069 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5070 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5071 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5072 Problems:
5073 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5074 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5075 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5076 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5077 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5078 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5079 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5080 character in first column?
5081 - Implementation ideas:
5082 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5083 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5084 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5085 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5086 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5087 Mode.
5088
5089
5090Command line completion:
50918 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50928 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5093 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50948 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5095 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050968 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5097 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050987 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5099 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005100- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5101- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5102 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051038 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5104 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51057 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5106 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5107- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5108 identifiers (Webb).
51098 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5110 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51117 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5112 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5113- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5114 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5115- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5116 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5117 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005118
5119
5120Command line history:
5121- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5122 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5123 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005124 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005125- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5126 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5127
5128
5129Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051309 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5131 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5132 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051338 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5134 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5135 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5136 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5137 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051388 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5139 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5140 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051417 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5142 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005143- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051447 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5145 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5146- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5147 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5148 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5149 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5150 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5151 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5152- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5153 Normal mode.
5154- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5155 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5156 are used.
5157- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5158- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5159- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5160
5161
5162'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051639 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5164 char * veryLongName =
5165 "very long string"
5166 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051678 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051688 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5169 long_type foo =
5170 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051718 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5172 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005173 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051748 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5175 func(
5176 new String[] {
5177 "asdf",
5178 "asdf"
5179 }
5180 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051818 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5182 (Chow Loong Jin)
5183 namespace {
5184 int
5185 func(int arg) {
5186 }
5187 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051886 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5189 func( arg1
5190 , arg2
5191 , arg3
5192 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051937 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005194 func(
5195 int x) // indent like "(4"
5196 {
5197 if (a
5198 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051999 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5200 if (a)
5201 {
5202 if (b)
5203 {
5204 // {
5205 }
5206 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005207 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5208 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5209 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005210- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005211 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52127 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5213- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5214 line).
5215- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5216- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5217 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5219 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5220- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5221 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5222- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5223- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5224 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52258 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5226 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5227 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5228- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5229- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5230 lines start with "\item".
5231- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5232 /* here is a comment that
5233 is just autoindented, and
5234 nothing else */
5235- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52367 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5237 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5238 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005239 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005240
5241
5242Java:
52438 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5244 Odendahl?
52458 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5246 "[i" commands and friends.
5247- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5248 (Jason)
5249- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5250 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5251
5252
5253'comments':
52548 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5255 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5256 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5257 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005258 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5259 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052607 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5261 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52627 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52636 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5264 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5265 regexp is used.
52668 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5267 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5268
5269
5270Virtual edit:
52718 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052727 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5273
5274
5275Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052768 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052778 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052788 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005279 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052808 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5281 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005282 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5283 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052848 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052858 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5286 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052878 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5288 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5289 the end of the line or before a ".".
52907 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5291 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52927 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5293 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052946 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52955 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5296 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5297 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5298 cursor is on.
5299
5300
5301Select mode:
53028 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5303 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53047 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005305 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053067 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5307 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5308 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5309 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5310 normal_cmd().
5311 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5312 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5313
5314
5315Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053168 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5317 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005318- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5319 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5320 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005321- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5322 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5323 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053248 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005325 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005326 where needed.
53277 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5328 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53297 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5330 of each selected line.
53318 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53328 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5333 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5334 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53358 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5336 Ben Godfrey)
53377 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5338 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53397 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5340 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053417 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005342 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005343 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53448 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5345 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53467 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5347 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5348 option!
53497 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5350 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5351 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5352 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5353 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5354 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5355 without changing the column.
53566 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053577 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5358 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053596 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5360 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53616 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053626 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005363 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005364 or other special character.
53656 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5366
5367
5368More advanced repeating commands:
5369- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005370- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005371- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005372 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5373 "y." will repeat last yank.
5374 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5375 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5376 and/or pick an older command.
5377- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5378
5379
5380Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053818 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5382 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5383 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53848 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53857 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5386 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053878 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5388 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53898 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053907 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053918 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5392 entering search strings.
53938 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5394 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5395 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053968 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5397 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053987 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053997 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5400 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054016 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5402 abbreviations are to be used.
5403- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5404 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5405 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005406- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5407 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5408 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5409 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5410 Or implicit:
5411 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005412- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5413 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5414 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005415- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5416 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5417- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5418 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54196 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5420 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5421 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5422 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005423- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5424 non-replace Insert mode?
5425- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005426- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5427- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5428 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5429- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005430 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005431- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5432 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5433- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5434- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5435 ":freekeys".
5436- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5437
5438
5439Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005440- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5441 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5442- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5443 folds when going to another line.
5444 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5445- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5446 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005447- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5448 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5449 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005450- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5451 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5452 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5453 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054549 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5455 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005456
5457
5458Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054599 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054608 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005461 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005462 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005463 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005464 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054659 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5466 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054678 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5468 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054698 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5470 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5471 Perl does it this way:
5472 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5473 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5474 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5475 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054768 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5477 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5478 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054797 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5480 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054818 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5482 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054837 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005484 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5485 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5486 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054877 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005488 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054897 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5490 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054918 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5492 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54938 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5494 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054957 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005496 example.
54978 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5498 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5499- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5500 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5501 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5502 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055038 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5504 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5505 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55067 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5507 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055087 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5509 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055108 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5511 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055128 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5513 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055148 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5515 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5516 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5517 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005518- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5519 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005520- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5521 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5522- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5523 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5524 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5525 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055268 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5527 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005528- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5529 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055308 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5531 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5532 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005533- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5534 i ignore case
5535 I use case
5536 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5537 v use Vi regexp syntax
5538 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5539 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5540 Perl uses these too:
5541 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5542 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5543 o compile only once (Perl only)
5544 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5545 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5546 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5547 following command.
5548 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5549- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5550 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5551 for search string)?
55527 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5553 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5554- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5555 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5556- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5557 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5558- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5559- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005560 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005561 a for the next file in the argument list
5562 f for file in the buffer list
5563 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005564 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5565 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005566 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5567 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5568- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055697 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005570 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055717 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5572 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5573 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5574 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55756 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5576 effects.
55777 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5578 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5579 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055807 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005581 Also ":dselect".
5582
5583
5584Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055859 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5586 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5587 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055889 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5589 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055908 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5591 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055928 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5593 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5594 timestamp?
5595 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5596 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005597- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5598 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005599- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5600 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5601 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56028 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5603 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5604 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5605 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56068 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5607 only remember the lines that really changed.
56087 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5609 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5610 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5611 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005612- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5613 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5614- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5615 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5616- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5617 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5618 [-99].
5619- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5620- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005621- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5622 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5623
5624
5625Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056267 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5627 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5628 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5629 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56308 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5631 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56328 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5633 inode too.
56347 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005635 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5636 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056377 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5638 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5639- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5640 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5641- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5642 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56437 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5644 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56457 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5646 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56478 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056487 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5649 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056508 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5651 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5652 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005653
5654
5655Swap (.swp) files:
56568 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5657 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5658 there are short file name problems.
56598 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5660 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56618 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56628 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005663 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005664 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5665 file the same as the actual file?
5666 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056677 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5668 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56697 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005670 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005671 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5672 enough room.
56737 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5674 or /var/preserve.
5675- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5676 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5677- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005678 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005679- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5680 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5681 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5682 cached list of which line is where.
5683
5684
5685Viminfo:
56867 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5687 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5688 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056898 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5690 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5691 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056928 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5693 name. (Schild)
56948 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56958 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056968 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056978 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5698 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5699 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5700 this?
57017 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57027 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5703 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57046 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5705 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5706 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5707- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5708 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5709
5710
5711Modelines:
57128 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5713 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5714 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005715- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5716 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5717 'shiftwidth'.
5718- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5719 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005720- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5721 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5722 modeline setting.
5723- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5724 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5725- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5726 .cpp files.
5727- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5728 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5729- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5730 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5731
5732
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005733Sessions:
57348 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5735 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57367 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5737 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057388 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5739 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057408 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5741 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5742 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057437 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5744 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057457 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005746
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005747
5748Options:
57497 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5750 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057518 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5752 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5753 also be supported.
57548 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5755 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5756 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57577 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005758
5759
5760External commands:
57618 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5762 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57634 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5764 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5765 -f).
57664 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57674 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5768 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57694 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5770
5771
5772Multiple Windows:
57737 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57748 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5775 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57767 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5777 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5778 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057797 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5780 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057817 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5782 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057836 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5784 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005785 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005786 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57877 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5788 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5789 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5790 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5791- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5792 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5793 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5794 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5795
5796
5797Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057988 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057998 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5800 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058018 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058028 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5803 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58048 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5805 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5806 the mark was set.
58077 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5808 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5809 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5810 ":browse marks"?
58116 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058127 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5813 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58147 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5815 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58167 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5817 command).
58187 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5819 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5820 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5821 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58225 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5823 mappings.
58246 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5825 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5826 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5827
5828
5829Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058307 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005831 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005832- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5833 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058348 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058357 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5836 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5837
5838
5839Writing files:
5840- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5841 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5842 shortname conversion.
58438 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58448 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5845 file.
58468 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5847 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5848 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058496 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5850 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58516 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5852 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58536 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5854 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058558 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005856 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58577 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5858 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58597 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5860 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5861 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5862 waiting for a character to be typed).
58638 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5864 line of the window, like "[time]".
5865 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5866 Automatic and/or with a command.
5867
5868
5869Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058708 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5871 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058728 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005873 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5874- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5875- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58768 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5877 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005878- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005879 :s///N substitutes N times.
5880- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5881 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5882 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58837 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5884 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5885 last line column 5.
58865 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5887 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5888 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5889 (Stanislav Sitar)
5890
5891
5892Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058938 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58947 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58958 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5896 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5897 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005898- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5899- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5900 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5901- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5902- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5903
5904
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005905Argument list:
59066 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5907 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5908 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59096 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5910
5911
5912Registers:
59138 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059148 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5915 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5916 for every line.
59176 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5918 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5919 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5920- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5921 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5922- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5923 leader when line wraps?
5924- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5925 line in the range.
5926- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5927 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59288 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5929 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005930
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005931
5932Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059338 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059348 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059357 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59367 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5937
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005938Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059397 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5940 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5941 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5942 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5943 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5944 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5945 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005946 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059477 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5948 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059497 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5950 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059518 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5952 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059537 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5954 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5955 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005956- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005957 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059587 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5959 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59608 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059617 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5962 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59638 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5964 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059656 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059668 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5967 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5968 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5969 in this Vim.
59708 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005971 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059728 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5973 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5974 have it apply to the following command.
59758 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5976 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5977 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5978 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059797 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5980 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059817 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5982 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5983 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5984 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059856 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59868 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59879 Support ACLs on more systems.
59887 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5989 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059907 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5991 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5992 (truncated to fit in the space).
59937 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59948 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59958 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5996 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059977 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005998 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59997 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6000 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060017 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060027 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60037 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060048 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60058 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6006 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6007 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6008 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60098 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060108 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060118 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6012 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6013 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6014 does something like this. (Shah)
60157 Use growarray for replace stack.
60167 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6017 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60183 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060197 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6020 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060217 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6022 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006023- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6024- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6025- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6026- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60277 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6028 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6029- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6030 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006031- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006032- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6033 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6034- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6035 call "play newbeep.au").
6036- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6037 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6038 (Bhatt).
6039- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6040 blockwise registers).
6041- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6042 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6043- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6044 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6045 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6046 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006047- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060487 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6049 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6050- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6051 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6052 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6053 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6054 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060558 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6056 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060578 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6058 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6059 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6060 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6061 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6062- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006063- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060647 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6065 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6066- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6067 not in column 1.
60686 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6069 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60707 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6071- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006072- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006073 :redir #> bufname
6074 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006075- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6076 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006077- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6078 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6079 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60806 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6081 console? (Klaus Hast)
6082- Add :delcr command:
6083 *:delcr*
6084 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6085 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6086 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6087 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6088 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006089 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006090- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6091- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6092 characters from 'isprint'.
6093- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6094- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6095 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6096- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6097 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6098 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6099- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6100- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6101 Nvi).
6102- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6103 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61047 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6105- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6106 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61076 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6108- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6109 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6110 macro).
6111- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006112- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6113 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6114- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61158 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006116- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6117- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6118- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6119 if it is not the first or last window.
6120- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6121 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61227 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6123 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6124 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6125- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6126- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006127 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006128 many percent down the windows).
6129- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6130 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6131 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006132 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006133- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6134 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6135- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6136 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6137- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6138- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6139- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6140 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061418 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6142 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6143 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6144 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6145 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006146- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6147 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6148- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006149 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6150- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006151 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6152 (Webb).
6153- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006154 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006155- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6156 hex codes like 0xff).
6157- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6158 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6159 the last TYPED command.
6160- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6161- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6162- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6163 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006164- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061658 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6166 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6167 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006168- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006169 trailing '.'.
6170- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6171 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6172 find_file_in_path().
6173- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6174 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6175- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6176- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6177 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6178- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006179 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006180- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6181 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6182 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006183- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6184- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6185- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6186 to the minimal size.
6187- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6188- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6189- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6190- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6191- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006192- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6193 entered)?
6194- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6195 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006196- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006197- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6198- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6199- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6200- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6201- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6202 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006203- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062048 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6205 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6206 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6207 or in octal.
62087 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6209 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006210- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006211 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6212- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6213- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6214 insert line command).
6215- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6216- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6217- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6218- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6219- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6220 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006221- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006222 yet.
6223- Implement 'redraw' option.
6224- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6225 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062267 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6227 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006228 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6229 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062308 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6231 do it.
6232- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6233- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6234 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6235- Add text justification option.
6236- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6237- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6238 off".
6239- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6240- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6241- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006242 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006243- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006244- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006245- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6246 commands.
6247- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6248- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6249- :table command (Webb)
6250- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006251- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6252- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6253- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6254- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6255- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6256 (Demirel).
6257- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6258- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6259 for use in macro's and the like.
6260- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006261 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006262- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006263 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006264- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006265 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006266 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6267- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6268 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006269- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006270 mkopttab to make option table?
6271- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6272 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6273- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6274 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006275- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006276 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6277- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6278 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006279- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062808 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6281 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6282 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6283 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6284 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062858 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6286 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6287 (Netherton)
62886 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6289 space after "(", for example.
62905 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6291 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6292 (Servatius Brandt)
6293
6294
6295From Elvis:
6296- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6297- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006298- Search patterns:
6299 \@ match word under cursor.
6300 but do:
6301 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6302 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63038 ":window" command:
6304 :win + next window (up)
6305 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6306 :win - previous window (down)
6307 :win -- idem, wrapping
6308 :win nr to window number "nr"
6309 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63107 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6311 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6312
6313
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006314From xvi:
6315- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6316- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6317
6318
6319From vile:
6320- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6321- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6322 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6323
6324
6325Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006326- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6327 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006328 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006329 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6330 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006331- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6332 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6333- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6334 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6335 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6336 current layout mirrored.
6337- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6338- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6339 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6340- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6341- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6342 font in each top-level window.
6343- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6344- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6345- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6346- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6347 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006348- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6349 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6350- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6351 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63524 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6353 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6354 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6355 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006356 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006357 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6358 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6359- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6360 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6361 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6362
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006363vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006364vim: set fo+=n :